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MDLIVE Unveils AI-Powered Chatbot to Improve Registration Process in Virtual Care Platform

by HITC Staff 12/01/2017 1 Comment

Walgreens/MDLive Expands Telehealth Visits to Consumers in 20 States

MDLIVE, a virtual medical and behavioral healthcare provider has announced the launch of Sophie, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot. The artificial intelligence-powered personal health assistant, Sophie is designed to mitigate the inconvenience, difficulties associated with registration process in virtual care platforms.  Sophie’s name is rooted in Greek ideology and symbolizes “wisdom.Conversation is initiated with a user based on demographics and information entered throughout the
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GE Launches Startup Drawbridge Health To Transform Blood Collection

by Fred Pennic 11/30/2017 Leave a Comment

GE Launches Startup Drawbridge Health To Transform Blood Collection

GE Ventures has announced the launch of Drawbridge Health, a personal diagnostic testing startup developing proprietary technology designed to integrate blood draw, collection and sample stabilization into a single device. The Drawbridge solution is being designed to offer a way for healthcare providers and diagnostic testing companies to better engage their patient-consumers and help enable them to manage their own health — driving a shift from reacting to tracking.Healthcare providers using
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FDA Clears AliveCor’s KardiaBand for Apple Watch, Records Medical-Grade EKG in 30 Seconds

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FDA Clears AliveCor’s KardiaBand for Apple Watch, Records EKG in 30 Seconds

AliveCor, a FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (EKG) technology, today announced FDA clearance of KardiaBand in the U.S., allowing Apple Watch users to discreetly capture their EKG anytime, anywhere in order to quickly detect normal sinus heart rhythms and atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart arrhythmia. The announcement marks first FDA-cleared medical device accessory for the Apple Watch, KardiaBand can record an EKG in 30 seconds with just a touch of its integrated sensor.
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Prognos Raises $20.5M For AI-Powered Disease Prediction Platform for Payers, Providers

by Jasmine Pennic 11/30/2017 Leave a Comment

Medivo Rebrands as Prognos to Leverage AI for Earlier Disease Detection

 Prognos, a New York City-based healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup that has been steadfastly building its AI capabilities with the goal of predicting disease has raised $20.5 million in Series C funding. Particpatnts in the round include Cigna, GIS Strategic Ventures (the venture capital arm of the Guardian Life Insurance Company), Hermed,  Hikma Ventures, Maywic, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (GHI), and Safeguard Scientifics.Prognos plans to use the funding to expand Prognos’
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Empiric Health Raises $3M to Expand Evidence-based Care Delivery Platform

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Intermountain, Oxeon Launch Health IT Startup Empiric Health To Activate Evidence-Based Care

Empiric Health, a health IT startup that activates evidence-based healthcare delivery to improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency has raised $3M in seed funding from Intermountain Helathcare. The company plans to use the seed funding to to commercialize and expand the company's service offering and workflow optimization tools, which will help health systems uncover and address variations in procedures and improve outcomes.Formed by Intermountain Healthcare and Oxeon earlier this
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Accenture Makes Strategic Investment in Quantum Computing Startup 1QBit

by Jasmine Pennic 11/29/2017 Leave a Comment

Accenture Makes Strategic Investment in Quantum Computing Startup 1QBit

Accenture has announced a new strategic alliance and minority investment in 1QBit, a leading quantum computing firm that builds quantum and quantum-inspired software to help organizations solve their most demanding computational challenges. The alliance will allow Accenture to develop new quantum-inspired analytics capabilities to solve healthcare and life sciences challenges through Accenture Analytics and scale pilot opportunities identified through the Accenture Labs. Terms of the transaction
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Optum Launches $250M Innovation Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Digital Health Startups

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Optum Launches $250M Innovation Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Digital Health Startups

UnitedHealth Group’s healtcare service business has announced the launch of Optum Ventures,a $250 million healthcare innovation fund dedicated to investing in early-stage digital health starutps. Funded by Optum, Optum Ventures will focus in investing in digital health startups that use data and insights to help improve consumers’ access to health care services and how care is delivered and paid for, and that make the health care system more reliable and easier to navigate.By leveraging Optum’s
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MedTech Startup Launches AI Platform to Help Radiologists Diagnose Stroke Faster Using CT Brain Scans

by HITC Staff 11/28/2017 Leave a Comment

MedTech Startup Launches AI Platform

Infervision, the medtech company which uses Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to improve medical image analysis and significantly speed radiologists' reading of scans and X-rays, today is launching a artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help radiologists diagnose strokes quickly using CT brain scans. This will help patients get faster treatment, possibly saving lives and reducing the impact of the stroke. The new AI-CT Stroke Screening System is the first of the Infervision AI-CT
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NTT DATA, MD.ai Partner to Accelerate Adoption of AI for Medical Imaging

by Fred Pennic 11/27/2017 Leave a Comment

NTT DATA, MD.ai Partner to Accelerate Adoption of AI for Medical Imaging

NTT DATA Services today announced a partnership with MD.ai, an emerging company in imaging research and artificial intelligence (AI) delivery for the clinical imaging space. Through this partnership, NTT DATA clients now have the ability to dive deeper into their imaging data with algorithms and automation tools that will improve workflow and provide better patient care.MD.ai brings a unique combination of semi-automated tools for imaging research, collaborative data annotation software, as well
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Philips Acquires Startup Analytics Informatics to Expand Radiology Solutions

by Fred Pennic 11/27/2017 Leave a Comment

Analytics Informatics to Expand Radiology Solutions Philips Acquires Startup

Philips has announced the acquisition of startup company Analytical Informatics, Inc., complementing its own innovation initiatives to expand its current offerings and accelerate the roadmap for Philips Radiology Solutions. Founded in 2011, Analytical Informatics’ products and capabilities, which include vendor-agnostic, advanced workflow tools and applications, strengthen Philips’ PerformanceBridge portfolio of operational performance solutions to optimize assets, uptime, utilization, practice,
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